Writing About Minor Characters Who Are People of Color / Vlog

Thank you for coming to a vlog edition of Write with Fey!

First, a few updates. If you don't use Blogger, you can skip this part.

BLOGGER USERS:  If you’ve found your way here after clicking on my blog's name for this post in your Blogger’s Reading List, you’ve been taken on a bit of a journey. Instead of the redirect link bringing you to my blog, it brought you to a Follow.it page for my blog. On that page, I added a special message just for Blogger users to prevent any confusion about what was happening.

That was different, huh? But not so bad, right? Just one more click.
This will be the normal procedure from now on if you click on my blog's name in your Reading List. Just go to the “Message History” on the Follow.it page and choose which post you want to see.
On the other hand, if you clicked on the title of this post in your Reading List, instead of this post's URL, you saw a very strange and long redirect URL that started with: https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story.... I know how startling odd links can be, so thank you for clicking on that redirect link to get here.
WHOOPS (also for Blogger users): Last week, you might’ve seen something odd happen with your Reading List on Blogger. All of my posts from this year suddenly popped back up to the front of Reading Lists. If you saw this, my apologies. I had no idea this was going to happen and couldn’t control it.
So why the changes to my blog? Well, like many bloggers, I had to change my email subscription service for blog posts to a different service provider. I followed all of their instructions, which involved importing my RSS users. Not every blogger takes this step. I wasn't sure if I should, but I decided to do what they suggested, which involved technical difficulties and confusion (i.e. everything I mentioned above).

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Now to the real purpose of this post, to share my latest YouTube video for writers.
This is a PowerPoint presentation with audio that focuses on writing about minor (or passing) characters who are people of color, especially if you're not of the same race as that character. This is not an exhaustive list but rather a starting point of do’s and don’ts to help you along the way and to encourage you to go further in your research. I hope these tips will lead to you wanting to write more inclusive and safe stories. Read more »